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214

[ No. IX. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 81.-An Act to authorize the Application of Part of

the Land Revenue of the Crown for providing Fixtures, Furniture, Fittings, and

Decorations for Buckingham Palace.

223

[ No. X. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 59.-An Act to extend the Term of an Act of the First

and Second years of his present Majesty, for ascertaining the Boundaries of the

Forest of Dean, and for inquiring into the Rights and Privileges claimed by Free

Miners of the Hundred of Saint Briavel's, to the Twenty-first Day of January,

One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and from thence to the end of the then

next Session of Parliament.

225

[ No. XI. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 58.-An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Here-

ditary Land Revenues of the Crown in Scotland.
. 226

PART III.

PERSONAL PROPERTY AND CONTRACTS.

CLASS I.

Patents, Literary Property, Property in Prints, Busts, and Patents of

Manufactures.

No. I. 3 W. IV. c. 15.—An Act to amend the Laws relating to Damatic Lite-

rary Property.

228

[ No. II. ] 5 & 6 W. 4, c. 65.-An Act for preventing the publication of Lectures

without consent.

230

[ No. III. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 83.--An Act to amend the Law touching Letters Pa-

tent for Inventions.

231

PART III.-CLASS II.

Trade, Navigation, Shipowners, Mariners, and Fisheries.

234

[No. 1. ] 11 G. IV. & 1 W. IV. c. 45. An Act to subject to Duties of Customs

Goods the property of the Crown, in case of Sale after Importation.

[No. II. ] 11 G. IV. & 1 W. IV. c. 54.-An Act to revive, continue, and amend

several Acts relating to the Fisheries.

ib.

[No. III. ] 11 G. IV. & 1 W. IV. c. 72.-An Act to allow, before the Fifth day of

July one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, Sugar to be delivered out of

Warehouse to be refined.
238

[ No. IV. ] 1 W. IV. c. 24.-An Act to amend an Act of the Sixth year of his late

Majesty to regulate the Trade of the British Possessions abroad.

ib.

[ No. V. ] 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 79.-An Act to continue, until the Thirty-first day of

December One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, an Act of the Fifth year of

his late Majesty relating to the Fisheries in Newfoundland. (5 G. IV. c. 51.) ib.

[No. VI. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 28.-An Act to repeal an Act of the Thirteenth year

of his Majesty King George the First, for the better regulation of the Woollen

Trade.

239

[ No. VII. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 9.-An Act for incorporating the Members of a So-

ciety commonly called The Seaman's Hospital Society" and their Successors, as

therein is mentioned and provided, and for the better enabling and empowering

them to carry on the charitable and useful Designs of the same Society.

ib.

[ No. VIII. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 50.-An Act to repeal the several Laws relating to

the Customs.

ib.

[ No. IX. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 51.-An Act for the management of the Customs. ib.

No. X. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 52.-An Act for the general Regulation of Customs. ib.

No. XI.] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 53. —An Act for the Prevention of Smuggling. ib.

No. XII. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 54-An Act for the Encouragement of British Ship-
ping and Navigation.
ib.

[ No. XIII. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 55.-An Act for the Registering of British vessels. 243

No. XIV. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 56.—An Act for granting Duties of Customs. 260

[No. XV. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 57.-An Act for the Warehousing of Goods. ib.

[No. XVI.] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 58.-An Act to grant certain Bounties and Allow-

ances of Customs.

ib.

[ No. XVII. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 59. An Act to regulate the Trade of the British

Possessions abroad.

261

[ No. XVIII. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 60.—An Act for regulating the Trade of the Isle

of Man.
ib.

[ No. XIX. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 61.-An Act to admit Sugar without Payment of

Duty to be refined for Exportation.

ib.

[ No. XX. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 38.-An Act to continue for Seven Years, and from

thence to the end of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act of the Fifty-ninth

Year of King George the Third (59 G. III. c. 58), for facilitating the Recovery of

the Wages of Seamen in the Merchants Service.
ib.

[ No. XXI. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 93.-An Act to regulate the Trade to China and

India.

262

[ No. XXII. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 13.—An Act to repeal so much of an Act of the

last Session of Parliament for the Prevention of Smuggling as authorizes Magistrates

to sentence Persons convicted of certain offences to serve His Majesty in his Naval

Service, and to alter and amend the said Act.

265

[ No. XXIII. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 32.—An Act for reducing the Tonnage Rates

payable in the Port of London.

ib.

[ No. XXIV. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 34.-An Act to repeal the Laws relating to the

Contribution out of Merchant Seamen's Wages towards the support of the Royal

Naval Hospital at Greenwich, and for supplying other Funds in lieu thereof. ib.

[ No. XXV. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 51.-An Act to amend the Laws relating to the

Collection and Management of the Revenue of Excise.

267

[ No. XXVI. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 52.-An Act to amend an Act of the Twentieth

Year of His Majesty King George the Second, for the Relief and Support of sick,

maimed, and disabled Seamen, and the Widows and Children of such as shall be

killed, slain, or drowned in the Merchant Service; and for other Purposes. ib.

[ No. XXVII. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 89.-An Act to amend the Laws relating to

the Customs.

284

[ No. XXVIII. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 94.-An Act to enable His Majesty to invest

trading and other Companies with the Powers necessary for the due Conduct of their

Affairs, and for the Security of the Rights and Interests of their Creditors. ib.

[ No. XXIX. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 13.-An Act to regulate the importation of Corn

into the Isle of Man.

286

[ No. XXX. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 19.-An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws

relating to the Merchant Seamen of the United Kingdom and for forming and

maintaining a Register of all the Men engaged in that Service.

ib.

[ No. XXXI. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 24.-An Act for the Voluntary Enlistment of

Seamen, and to make Regulations for more effectually Manning His Majesty's

Navy.
306

[ No. XXXII. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 53.-An Act to repeal an Act of the Ninth Year

of his late Majesty for regulating the Carriage of Passengers in Merchant Vessels

from the United Kingdom to the British Possessions on the Continent and Islands

of North America: and to make further Provision for regulating the Carriage of

Passengers from the United Kingdom.
ib.

[ No. XXXIII. ] 5 & 6 W. c. 56.--An Act to regulate the Admeasurement of the

Tonnage and Burthen of the Merchant Shipping of the United Kingdom 311

[ No. XXXIV. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 66.-An Act to amend the Law relating to the

Customs.

313

[ No. XXXV. ] 5 & 6. W. IV. c. 67.—Ân Act for the improvement of the Navi-

gation of the River Shannon

ib.

PART III-CLASS III.

Insurance.

[ 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 53, s. 46. ]

PART III-CLASS IV.

Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes.

[No. I. ] 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 98.-An Act for regulating the protesting for Nonpay-

ment of Bills of Exchange drawn payable at a Place not being the Place of the

Residence of the Drawee or Drawees of the same.

314

[No. II. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 83.-An Act to compel Banks issuing Promissory

Notes payable to Bearer on Demand to make Returns of their Notes in Circula-

tion, and to authorize Banks to issue Notes payable in London for less than Fifty
Pounds.
ib.

[No. III. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 98.-An Act for giving to the Corporation of the

Governor and Company of the Bank of England certain privileges for a limited

Period, under certain Conditions.

315

PART III.-CLASS V.

Usury.

[ No. I. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 98, s. 7. (Act renewing the Bank Charter.). 321

[No. II.] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 41.-An Act to amend the Law relating to Securities

given for Considerations arising out of gaming, usurious, and certain other illegal

Transactions.

ib.

PART III.-CLASS VI.

Annuities.

[No. I. ] 10 G. IV. c. 24.-An Act to enable the Commissioners for the Reduc-

tion of the National Debt to grant Life Annuities and Annuities for Terms of

Years.
325

[ No. II. ] 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 59.-An Act to transfer the Management of certain

Annuities on Lives from the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer to the Manage-

ment of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt; and to amend

an Act for enabling the said Commissioners to grant Life Annuities and Annuities

for Terms of Years.

341

[There has been no statute on this subject since 7 G. 2, c. 8, made perpetual by the

[No. I. ] 6 G. IV. c. 82.-An Act to abolish the Sale of Offices in the Court of

King's Bench in England, to make Provision for the Lord Chief Justice of the said

Court, and to grant an additional Annuity to the said Lord Chief Justice on Resig-

nation of his Office.

349

[ No. II. ] 6 G. IV. c. 83.—An Act to abolish the Sale of Offices in the Court of

Common Pleas in England, to make Provision for the Lord Chief Justice of the

said Court, and to grant an additional Annuity to the said Lord Chief Justice on

Resignation of his Office.
350

PART III.-CLASS XI

Transfer of Stock.

[ No. I. ] 11 G. IV. c. 13.-An Act for transferring certain Annuities of Four

Pounds per centum per annum, into Annuities of Three Pounds and Ten Shil-

lings or Five Pounds per centum per annum.

353

[ No. II. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 31.-An Act for transferring certain Annuities of Four

Pounds per centum per annum, into Annuities of Three Pounds and Ten Shil-

lings per centum per annum; and for providing for paying off the Persons who

may dissent to such Transfer.
ib.

[No. III. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 24.-An Act to amend an Act of the Tenth Year of

his late Majesty, for regulating the Reduction of the National Debt.

ib.

PART III.-CLASS XII

Restitution of Stolen Property.

[The 7 & 8 G. IV. c. 59, s. 57, is the last provision on this subject. ]

PART III-CLASS XIII.

Executors and Administrators.

356

[ No. I. ] 1 W. IV. c. 40.-An Act for making better Provision for the Disposal of

the undisposed of Residues of the Effects of Testators.

[ No. 11. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 42.-An Act for the further amendment of the Law,

and the better advancement of Justice.

ib.

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